Dhallywood actor and Awami League candidate for Dhaka-10, Ferdous Ahmed, cast his vote during the ongoing 12th National Parliament Election Sunday morning, reports UNB.Ferdous voted at the Bhashantek Government Primary School polling centre in the capital at 10 am.He arrived...
Jim Bates, former US congressman, an election observer from the US, has described the 12th National Parliamentary Election as "free and fair", reports UNB"I'd like to say it's a free and fair election already," he told journalist. "The thing they...
The Election Commission has suspended voting at seven polling centres for the general election amid irregularities including the forceful stamping of ballot papers, reports bdnews24.com.Five of these centres were in Narsingdi and Narayanganj. Voting at these centres was suspended between...
Director General (DG) of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) M Khurshid Hossain on Sunday said that voting atmosphere in the 12th Jatiya Sangsad election was better than 2014 and 2018 polls, reports BSS."The people were voting freely with great enthusiasm. There...
Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will exchange greetings with local and foreign journalists today (Monday) on the occasion of the 12th National Election, reports UNB.The programme will be held at Prime Minister's official residence Ganabhaban, according to...
The Election Commission has cancelled the candidacy of Awami League candidate Mustafizur Rahman in Chattogram-16 constituency, reports UNB.His candidacy was scrapped on the ground of violation of the election code, said EC Secretary Md Jahangir Alam at a press briefing...
In a bid to boost the turnout, candidates in the Dhaka-5 constituency mobilised a fleet of battery-run rickshaws and autorickshaws to transport voters to polling centres on election day, reports bdnews24.com.Md Mamun, the driver of a rickshaw hired by independent...
Despite reports of sporadic violence across the country, the 12th National Parliamentary Election has been marked by enthusiastic participation of first-time voters, eager to exercise their democratic rights. This election, significant for its potential impact on the nation's future, has...
BEIJING, Jan 07 (AP): China announced sanctions Sunday on five American defence-related companies in response to US arms sales to Taiwan and US sanctions on Chinese companies and individuals.The sanctions will freeze any property the companies have in China and...
CHENNAI, Jan 7 (PTI): Billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Sunday said his firm Reliance Industries in partnership with Canada's Brookfield will open a data centre in Chennai next week, marking entry into the fast-growing market.Reliance had in July last year invested...
A major Chinese shadow bank has filed for bankruptcy on the grounds it was unable to pay its debts, reports BBC.On Friday, a Beijing court accepted the application from Zhongzhi Enterprise Group (ZEG), which has lent billions to real estate...
HANOI, Jan 7 (Reuters): Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast signed an agreement on Saturday to set up its first manufacturing facilities in India, as the ambitious company seeks to penetrate the world's third-largest vehicle market.VinFast and the southern state...
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The contribution of knitwear items to the country's total export earnings reached over 47 per cent, making it the top foreign currency earner in the last calendar year (2023). An analysis showed Bangladesh fetched US$55.78 billion from merchandise shipments in...
NEW DELHI, Jan 07 (AFP): India's Rohit Sharma will skipper the upcoming three-match T20I series against Afghanistan, fresh from celebrating the quickest win in Test history in South Africa, India's cricket board said Sunday.Earlier in January, Rohit led India to...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 07 (AFP): Brazilians paid their last respects Sunday to football legend Mario Zagallo, after the four-time World Cup-winning player and coach died at age 92, the final member of one of the country's greatest footballing generations.Dressed...
SYDNEY, Jan 07 (PTI): Batting great David Warner has expressed his ambition to take up coaching in the future, while also predicting that sledging will be gone from the sport within the next decade as players of different countries share...
MELBOURNE, Jan 07 (AFP): Spanish superstar Rafael Nadal on Sunday pulled out of the Australian Open with a "micro tear on a muscle" barely a week after making his comeback from a year-long injury absence, but said he remained positive.The...
Traveling often marks the beginning of much rest and relaxation, but for one soccer club from the small island nation of Martinique, that was perhaps not the case in its recent trip to northern France, according to CNN Sports.Golden Lion...
Ethiopian runner Tigist Ketema broke the world record for fastest marathon debut in Dubai on Sunday, shaving more than a minute off the course record, report agencies.Clocking a time of 2:16:07, the 25-year-old became the eighth fastest woman in marathon...
BRISBANE, Australia, Jan 08 (Agencies): Elena Rybakina claimed her sixth career title with a 6-0, 6-3 rout of top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka to win the the Brisbane International in a perfect tune-up for the first major of 2024.Sabalenka, who had won...
Holding hands, this ripe old-age couple going to vote at a polling centre at Dhuldi Abdul Quddus Munshi High School in Faridpur as the 12th parliamentary election was held on Sunday. The husband is 91 while wife 79 — Focus...
Hospitals in Bangladesh have recorded 13 new cases of dengue fever in a day, taking the tally of infections this year to 378 after the worst outbreak in the country's history in 2023, reports bdnews24.com.The death toll remained unchanged with...
A blaze has ripped through four blocks of a Rohingya refugee settlement in Cox's Bazar's Kutupalong on the eve of the national election, reports bdnews24.com.The fire broke out at a house in block A of camp No. 5 at 11:45...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 07 (BSS): Cultural activities of the plain ethnic minority people have flourished to a greater extent in the region, including its vast Barind tract, by dint of pragmatic and effective initiatives taken by the present government in the...
RAJBARI, Jan 06 (UNB): A village police officer on duty at a polling center was found dead in Rajbari's Baliakandi upazila in the early hours on Saturday.The deceased, Ranjit Kumar Dey, was stationed at Char Arkandi Government Primary School in...
A centenarian aged 105-year-old cast his vote in Chauddagram upazila of Cumilla Dakhin district on Sunday, report agencies.He went to the voting centre of Sreepur Govt Primary School with his grandson and cast his vote in the morning.Amir Hossain expressed...
A mobile court has jailed three people for 15 days after they were caught paying voters to cast their ballots for Salim Uddin Talukdar, an independent candidate for the Naogaon-3 seat, report agencies.The convicts are Md Fulbor (53), Md Swadhin...
Biden admin leaders, Pentagon officialsunaware for days Austin was in hospitalWASHINGTON, Jan 07: Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalised since Monday, U.S. officials...
MEXICO CITY, Jan 07 (AFP): Mexican authorities are investigating the cartel-related killing of five people in the southern state of Guerrero, the regional prosecutor's office said, after an NGO first reported an attack in the area involving drones and explosives.The...
SEOUL, Jan 07 (AFP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister on Sunday denied Seoul's claims that Pyongyang had fired dozens of artillery rounds near their border a day earlier.On Saturday, Seoul's military said North Korean forces had fired...
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